Are you a global market access lead looking to understand the challenges faced by your UK affiliates? Or do you work at a national level with responsibility for bringing a new health technology to the NHS in England? In July 2024, Global Whispers and NHS Whispers came together, to bring you an overarching view of what it takes to access the NHS with a medtech or pharmaceutical innovation.

Guest speaker Dr Faris Al-Ramadani who shared his experience of introducing new technologies to the NHS from both sides of the fence: as a PCN Clinical Director and GP Partner, and as a HealthTech and Venture Capital Consultant.

The NHS in England is complex and ever changing. Recent years have seen the introduction of new structures, new decision-makers and new priorities. If you’ve fallen out of the loop of what’s happening with the NHS, this webinar is here to help.

After de-ciphering some of the new(er) NHS terminologies and structures, we discuss:

• The key steps for introducing a new health technology to the NHS
• Who to speak to, when and where
• What to include in your value proposition to appeal to NHS decision-makers
• How to best meet key stakeholders’ needs
• The challenges of bringing a new technology to the NHS in England
  
  

Learn more about this webinar at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/de-mystifying-the-nhs/

Discover more about how we can support your UK launch strategy at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/strategic-uk-market-access/

This webinar was first broadcast live as a webinar in July 2024

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What can we expect to see in primary care in the NHS given recent policy announcements and ongoing uncertainty? What does the new GP Contract tell us about the future of primary care? What are the biggest challenges facing primary care in 2024–25?

In this webinar, Karen Cooper (Senior Consultant – NHS Insight & Interaction, Mtech Access) spoke to a panel of NHS Associates about the current state and future of primary care and what this means for industry. Our panellists were:
- Jack Wagstaff (Place Leader, Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, Chief Officer for North West Surrey Health and Care Alliance)
- Zafran Azam (Head of Medicines Optimisation and Delivery, Derby City Place)
- Dr Neil Forster (GP and PCN Clinical Director, Northumberland Medical Alliance)

We explore:
- Where NHS primary care is heading and what this means for your strategy and business planning
- Prescribing and decision-making in primary care
- The implications of the GP Contract for PCNs, GPs, patients, and industry
- What this means for integration and the integrated care model
- Policy priorities in practice and what to expect in an election year
- How Pharma, Medtech, and Diagnostics companies can best engage with primary care leaders

Learn more at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/nhs-primary-care-gp-contract/
Discover more about our UK market access services at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/uk-nhs-insights/

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Discover how data visualisation dashboards can aid field teams in market access discussions with customers.

Healthcare leaders look to real-world data (RWD) to inform decisions. Field teams presenting decision-makers with RWD within a well-designed, easy-to-use visualisation can build a case for change, while positioning themselves as a trusted partner. Watch this 20-minute discussion between Iain Shield (Associate Director – Market Access) and Ben Spurr (Head of Partnerships) to discover how Connected Insights data visualisation dashboards can help your teams have strategic conversations with healthcare decision-makers. Iain also explains typical use cases for the dashboards for field teams, why data dashboards are useful for the NHS, and what sets Connected Insights dashboards apart.

Learn more about this showcase at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/engage-nhs-with-rwd/

Learn more about real-world data visualisation at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/digital-capabilities/real-world-data-market-access/

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What do you need to know about the market access and reimbursement landscape in Canada? What changes can we expect at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) in 2024/2025? In this webinar, Clare Foy (Director – Global Market Access, Mtech Access) interviewed Don Husereau (Adjunct Professor of Medicine, The University of Ottawa).

We take a look at the market access, health policy, and health technology assessment in Canada. Clare Foy and Don Husereau explore:

• The market access landscape in Canada
• Upcoming changes at CADTH
• What Canadian payers expect from your value proposition
• Opportunities and challenges when launching new medicines/medical devices/diagnostics in Canada
• How Canada compares to the USA/key European launch markets
• What this means for your global market access strategy

This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in March 2024. Learn more at https://mtechaccess.co.uk/market-access-canada-changes-cadth/

Learn more about the Canadian healthcare market and launching new pharma and medtech innovations at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/launching-healthcare-products-in-canada/

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Where will you be launching your new orphan medicine? You may be confident that your Global market access strategy will support access in key launch markets like the UK, the EU4 and the US, but have you thought about other markets? Have you looked at the reimbursement requirements for rare disease products in the Nordic markets? Have you explored opportunities in growth markets, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region?

In this webinar, our Global Market Access team compare and contrast access opportunities and challenges for rare disease treatments in the differing markets of the Nordic and MENA regions, asking: what does this mean for your overarching market access strategy?

Our Global Market Access experts explore contrasting regions to showcase the significant differences between international markets when it comes to:

- Overall and rare disease patient populations
- Access inequalities
- Time to diagnosis
- Access to innovation timelines
- Healthcare funding
- Health technology assessment frameworks

Robert Taaffe (Consultant – Global Market Access) presents his research into the market access conditions in the MENA regions, with a focus on the rare disease reimbursement landscape in growth markets in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Michelle James (Associate Consultant – Global Market Access) showcases market access and reimbursement routes in the more established, yet smaller populations in the Nordic regions. Michelle will focus on access in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

Clare Foy (Director – Global Market Access) leads our discussion on the opportunities and challenges of launching in markets with different conditions and requirements, and how this should play into your overarching Global market access strategy.

Learn more at and request a copy of the webinar slides at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/rare-disease-market-access-nordic-and-mena/

Discover how Mtech Access can support you with market access, pricing and reimbursement for rare disease treatments at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/global-market-access-and-pricing/

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Which decisions are made at Region level in the NHS in England? How do finances and funding work at this level? And how can industry best support and engage with Region leaders?

We sit down with guest speaker Richard Smale (Interim Director of System Co-ordination, NHS England [NHSE] – South West) for an all-encompassing discussion that explored finance, funding flows, system priorities, and the decision-making process in NHS Regions.

Richard heads up system co-ordination work across the NHS South West Region. The Region has seven Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), 22 Trusts, nine counties and a resident population of over 5.5 million patients stretching from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire to the Isles of Scilly.

The interview was led by David Thorne (Principal Consultant, Mtech Access and Transformation Director at Well Up North Primary Care Network [PCN]) who put both the NHS and industry perspectives to Richard to explore the real state of the NHS.

In this episode, David and Richard discuss:
- Where the NHS is heading and what this means for your strategy and business planning
- Decision making, finances, and funding flows across the NHS
- The role of NHS Regions, particularly with key funding decisions like Specialised Commissioning
- Delivering service change across integrated systems
- Policy priorities in practice and what to expect in an election year
- How Pharma, Medtech, and Diagnostics companies can best engage NHS leaders at Region level

This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in February 2024.
Learn more about the webinar and Richard at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/how-does-funding-flow-in-nhse-regions/

Discover more about our NHS Insights services at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/uk-nhs-insights/

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What do we know about plans and policy for 2024/25? As the expected central operating plan had not materialised (at time of recording), and with a general election and a potential Labour government on the horizon, how can NHS and industry drive forward improvements and innovation?

Host Robert Hull (Senior Consultant – NHS Insight & Interaction, Mtech Access) was joined by guest speakers Debbie Morgan (Director of Service Improvement and Transformation, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Ellen Rule (Deputy CEO/Director of Strategy & Transformation, Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board) and Dr Viren Mehta (GP Partner, GP Federation Chief Officer, Viaduct Care). Together we explored what all this uncertainty means for NHS decision-making, day-to-day operations, strategy, and engagement with industry.

In this webinar, we bring together leaders from across the NHS to explore how they are planning and operating in this uncertainty.

We explore:
- Strategy and planning in these times of uncertainty
- What’s happening with GP contracts
- Financial pressures and challenges
- If/where it’s possible to drive forward change in the current environment
- How Pharma and Medtech can best support NHS leaders
- Where the panel would welcome solutions from industry

Please note this episode was first broadcast in January 2024 as a live webinar. Some aspects of policy discussed have evolved and continue to evolve.

Discover more at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/nhs-policy-for-2024-25/

Learn more about our NHS insights services at: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/uk-nhs-insights/

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What is health economic evaluation and which modelling approaches can be used to support market access activities?

In this episode, our expert health economists explain the key strengths and limitations of the most common health economic modelling classifications and structures. Here, Hannah Gillies (Consultant – Health Economics) and Daniel MacDonald (Associate Consultant – Health Economics) de-mystify the different approaches to health economic modelling.

Our specialists explore six of the most common health economic modelling structures used to support market access activities;
- Decision trees
- Markov models
- Semi-Markov models
- Partitioned survival models
- Cox regression models
- Discrete event simulations

This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in January 2024. For more information or to request a copy of the slides used, please visit: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/de-mystifying-health-economic-models/

Work with our health economists: https://mtechaccess.co.uk/health-economics/

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